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The noise-dive Apple's software has taken, it might fall under the "treats like crap".
It's odd to me that so many people seem to dislike this comment. My experience with MacOS has gotten more and more negative with each update. I upgraded to Mojave a few weeks ago (because the OS would not stop nagging me to) and I've had nothing but problems since.
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What do you mean tomorrow? When I open my start menu today I see ads for a bunch of games and apps that I don't have installed. When I see my lock screen I see a pretty nature photo with a couple of clickbait phrases on it like "If you think that this place is peacefull, then..."
Suggested apps can be turned off from the right-click context menu on one of the items: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-3250630/turn-suggested-...
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How are these machines HIPAA compliant when your OS vendor can push random software to them?
Vendors aren't considered threats under HIPPA which, tbf, is pretty rational because if you don't trust the entity that wrote the software or made your hardware you've got much bigger problems.
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How are these machines HIPAA compliant when your OS vendor can push random software to them?
Vendors aren't considered threats under HIPPA which, tbf, is pretty rational because if you don't trust the entity that wrote the software or made your hardware you've got much bigger problems.
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I guess you're assigning "walled garden" to macOS, but macOS is still UNIX underneath, and you can run any open software you want on it. I still think it's an excellent option for the privacy conscious. There are plenty of free software based operating systems that will take your money. Red Hat seems like the most obvious one.
I resurrected my late 2012 Mac Mini recently and "upgraded" it to Mojave. I can't even SSH into the box. The SSH daemon accepts connections, firewall is off, and login sharing is enabled. But the daemon refuses my key, my password. I can't even figure out how to get it to display the reasons for the denied access. At least on Linux I can turn off the daemon, turn on logging, turn the daemon back on, and get somewhere…
Several of the latest OSX releases have progressively locked down some executables/directories to Ring -1 (requires more than just root/sudo privs). I see it as Apple locking down the OS against potential malware, as I've always been able to work around their changes with some Stack-Overflow-fu.
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I resurrected my late 2012 Mac Mini recently and "upgraded" it to Mojave. I can't even SSH into the box. The SSH daemon accepts connections, firewall is off, and login sharing is enabled. But the daemon refuses my key, my password. I can't even figure out how to get it to display the reasons for the denied access. At least on Linux I can turn off the daemon, turn on logging, turn the daemon back on, and get somewhere…
SSH is no different on macOS to Linux. Go and look in the usual places: /etc/ssh/sshd_config and /var/log. If you really are still stuck, disable Remote Login from the Sharing panel and start sshd yourself in a Terminal in verbose mode.
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Ah, yes. nvidia is a thorn. In other news, the AMD and Intel drivers are as good as, if not better, than their windows counterparts!
This, unfortunately is not as true as I wish it was. I bought an RX 560 and tried to install Ubuntu 18.04. It could not propery drive my 4k display that uses DP 1.2 MST. That display has been working fine with a few different cards on Mac and Windows since 2014 when I bought it. I even tried the AMD pro drivers. Granted, the open source nvidia drivers couldn’t do it with a 1030 on 18.04 either, but the proprietary on…
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg2NTY
Though if you follow the DP MST keyword there's still some corner cases being polished...
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=DP%20MST
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DRM-Misc...
The Mesa drivers Ubuntu (and Debian, and many other distros) provide CAN be rather old. As you mentioned Ubuntu, follow the directions here to have a stack that's as updated as possible.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Requirements
I also tend to like checking Arhc Linux support page, but it doesn't seem to be helpful for this issue: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Radeon
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> 1. I hate package managers as an application installation paradigm wat so you prefer go to vlc.com for vlc, 7-zip.com for 7-zip, update them by hand or add custom system services constantly running for every program to install themselves, etc etc instead of a `pacman -S 7z vlc krita libreoffice [every other software you need]`
Yes. I like having software that is up to date and delivered direct from the developer. I like having portable applications that don't even need installation. I like being able to put applications on different disks. I like being able to have multiple versions of an application. There is not a single package manager in existence for Linux that gives me these things.
Nix is the package manager that does this. It literally does damn near everything that comes out of every HN discussion of package managers, ever, but very few seem to bother investigating it.
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How are these machines HIPAA compliant when your OS vendor can push random software to them?
Vendors aren't considered threats under HIPPA which, tbf, is pretty rational because if you don't trust the entity that wrote the software or made your hardware you've got much bigger problems.
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> All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. AFAIK a license is paid with every new computer coming WITH Windows, so it isn't like people get Windows for free. I'm not sure it is even possible to transfer Windows's license from compute…
What do you mean tomorrow? When I open my start menu today I see ads for a bunch of games and apps that I don't have installed. When I see my lock screen I see a pretty nature photo with a couple of clickbait phrases on it like "If you think that this place is peacefull, then..."